JonJayCutler

Wow, Romo finishes with a 60.1 QB rating despite having 5 picks.

This is about as consistent of a season as you can expect from Soriano. Seems like he's been hovering around an .820 OPS for months now.

Someone in my league just traded Reggie Bush for Dez Bryant straight up. It's a serious league too.

Funny how the Colts game seems like a distant memory now. I'm not hitting the panic button quite yet. The offense usually found a way to adjust and rebound from bad games over the past couple seasons, which could possibly be credited to Martz. We'll see if Tice can pull off something similar. Although ultimately I'm fearing what most people already are: that Tice is incompetent as an OC/playcaller. So far Martz did more with less offensive weapons.

Ryan Grant signed with Washington.

Everything I've read so far points to Forte returning this week, unless something new has surfaced in the last 12 hours or so. I assume the working out of Grant is just because Bell sucks.

Well I just saw the replay and it looked like the touchdown signaling ref began to signal before the other ref, so not sure the peer pressure thing holds any water.

Yep. Pic on the front of NFL.com says it all... http://static.nfl.com/static/content/public/photo/2012/09/24/0ap1000000065977.jpg

I think the chest bumping is what people are having a hard time dealing with. Webb deserved to have his ass chewed out, but things change when they become physical. I'd prefer Jay just apologize to keep the peace.

The Rams do look improved, but let's not forget the Detroit game was similar to a home game as far as climate and field surface/condition go. This team has always struggled outdoors. Put up 16 or less points in all six outdoor games last year, including 3, 13, 0, and 0 in four games on grass. Now to be fair, they didn't score many points anywhere last year, but I'm not still not too worried considering the level our defense is playing at right now. Also, Steven Jackson pulled a groin today and will probably sit this one out. Bears 27 Rams 9

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000062313/article/kahlil-bell-tweets-hes-back-with-chicago-bears?module=HP11_headline_stack Bears choose Bell over Slaton. Meh.

I assume we won't hear more about Forte until Monday. There's 18 days between the injury and the MNF game in Dallas, so that could be a possibility depending on the severity.

Enderle was a 5th rounder.

Slaton would be great if he's still in good shape.

Thankfully we won't need Forte to beat St. Louis or Jacksonville.

Not sure why Stephen Hill isn't on this list. I feel better about him than Ogletree.

Pat Angerer officially ruled out, which makes a weak Colts defense even weaker. Looks like Booker is the only Bear in danger of missing the game. Podlesh, Urlacher, and Conte all probable.

http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/bears/post/_/id/4677585/urlacher-procedures-not-your-business?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Looks like Bryant McKinnie may be cut by the Ravens today.

Yeah there's certainly a chance that the Colts will hang with the Bears all game, but I don't think it's a very good one. They went 0-8 on the road last year, the defense is bad, the o-line is bad, Luck will likely make some plays, but he'll throw his picks as well. Tillman shouldn't have any problem with an aging Wayne. I agree that the Bears offense probably won't come out lighting up the score board, but I think they force some turnovers which lead to points. Luck can scramble, but I don't see him giving us the fits that Newton did last year.

Looking at the schedule, we should be able to get to the bye at 4-1. Colts, Rams, and Jags should be easy wins, which means we'd just have to split the Packers and Cowboys games, which I think we can do.

But the player that's missing was a rookie, who missed 2011 and last played as a CB in college. Basically, if you think the Bears are thin at S now.....you should have thought they were thin before, so losing Hardin doesn't change anything. Your 4th safety is now a guy that's been around the team for 2 camps and a full season now, instead of a guy playing S for the first time ever and football for the first time in 20 months. Obviously, Hardin is more talented, but the "lack of experience" isn't a new issue at the S position. My feelings about safety aren't a result of Hardin getting injured, as I hated the pick (see my post on our draft a couple days ago). Even if a lack of experience isn't a new issue at safety, the durability of this particular starting tandem could be. Wright has missed 11 games over his first two seasons, and Conte missed the last few games of last season and is hurt again this year. Or perhaps I just buy too much into the "injury-prone" theory, we'll find out. If they do get hurt, it doesn't feel particularly nice to have undrafted talent at both your 4th and 5th safety positions, something we didn't have last year. Now to be fair, I don't know much about Walters or Jeremy Jones, but I'd guess that few people do at this point. All that said, I'm definitely not a fan of trading away picks for more safety depth either.

I'm not really worried about CB at all. Tillman and Jennings are solid starters, Hayden has a good amount of experience and Moore is a great nickel back. McManis is obviously ST, although it sounds like he was a pretty good CB at NU. He's going to have big shoes to fill as Corey Graham was a stud on ST. I am still slightly uncomfortable with our safeties. Wright and Conte will be fine if healthy, it's just such a big if, especially with Wright. Sounds like Steltz had a pretty good camp so that's good, but beyond him there isn't much. Then again, I suppose Walters can't be much worse than Meriweather was last year. So no, on paper the Bears aren't really "thin" in the secondary, but when you don't have much faith in your starting safeties staying healthy, you tend to value experience more. Hopefully it will be fine though.

Enormous expectations, easily the highest they've ever been. Excited but also nervous as I know it won't take much to become disappointed. But as long as we win and Urlacher makes it through the game healthy I'll be a happy camper, at least for this week. Bears 34 Colts 14 Marshall and Jeffery each with a TD. Luck 2 TDs, 2 INTs.

Someone picked Dallas to win the SB. Haha.